Brush hog accident(s)

[bunchgrass]

I can't help but feeling you're needing to go against the general consensus here because you don't appreciate the comments and views directed towards the deceased and her family. It's way too damn easy to kill or maim someone with equipment like a tractor and mower. Add in differing conditions, conditions we don't know, and as you might say- maybe we don't judge a situation we don't have knowledge of?

I mean, I know it was said earlier, but look through this thread- it's absolutely full of mishaps and close calls. **** happens; unfortunately in this case **** was the brutal and horrific death of a woman well before her time. We all **** up, let's be thankful we're only killing animals, small appliances, and rocks.

This dude is going to live with this on his conscious for the rest of his life, I hope it doesn't kill him. This woman should still be alive, but she also should not have been sleeping in overgrown grass- no one should be. The failures of society hold far more responsibility than the operator of that tractor, but what are you going to do, scold a politician?

I'm ranting at this point, but how can I not? This is one terrible story, no matter the angle you look at it.

I don't recall anyone claiming to have run over something even close to the size of a human body. Did I miss something?

 

[big bubba]

I feel the same way, especially when you pass them in a motorhome.

I live on a dirt road which used to have about five cars max each day (including mine). That recently has changed and the way some of these kids drive down it makes me want to dump out a bucket of golf balls next to the road and mow them over.

slightly off topic but on the same subject of safety & roads: i travel dirt roads to my pace in the Ozark mts. the high performance atv's now days are not utility but high speed rec. race around the blind curves. like the homeowner mowers along highways, these guys race around with reckless abandon....
then add that to the sheer size of today's full size pickups, & ....an accident in the making. i drive defensively & slow, take the wide swing around blind curves. regards

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

There was a pic .... and it's CALIFORNIA in the summer. Nothing even close to that. And you would be able to see a path through that stuff you took pics of. People can't brush bust and not leave some sort of indication they've been through there. Even deer leave trails.

They don't have grass or weeds in California?

Since when?

Can someone in California confirm this?

Have you lived in N. Idaho long?

 

[lilranch2001]

Come on dude don't be so judgy. You have of the no idea of the circumstances. Homeless people are rarely the responsibility of their family. They more often than not have refused family help due to their mental issues. We have thousands of veterans and other folks from great families on the streets because families have only so much they can do legally to get a homeless person off the street. Please keep an open mind and stop assuming the worst of people.

Why? The family got “judgy” mighty quickly!

What’s good for the goose as they say is good for the gander!

 

[milkman636]

I don't recall anyone claiming to have run over something even close to the size of a human body. Did I miss something?

One of neighbor just left, she's a full-grown woman that stands at 4'11" and 98 lbs. Her niece was with her, and she may be 5'1" and around 10 lbs. heavier. Either one could lay down in the weeds and hide pretty well.

 

[Jstpssng]

I don't recall anyone claiming to have run over something even close to the size of a human body. Did I miss something?

Several people have told about running over deer.

 

[bunchgrass]

Several people have told about running over deer.

From what I read, they found them by using their FEL set low before they ran over them. Really hard to imagine driving my tractor over the top of a live deer and it still being there to get hit by the mower behind me. And my tractor sits pretty high.

 

[Fixastuff]

From what I read, they found them by using their FEL set low before they ran over them. Really hard to imagine driving my tractor over the top of a live deer and it still being there to get hit by the mower behind me. And my tractor sits pretty high.

You have a bad imagination! Lol.

 

[bunchgrass]

You have a bad imagination! Lol.

Thirty years doing this and never even came close and no one I know who's lived here even longer than that has ever mentioned that either. And we have plenty of deer. Fawns get skewered by the swather every year.

 

[mjonesnh]

From what I read, they found them by using their FEL set low before they ran over them. Really hard to imagine driving my tractor over the top of a live deer and it still being there to get hit by the mower behind me. And my tractor sits pretty high.

It does happen. Happened to me. Fawn in 5 ft tall grass. Had no idea anything was in grass till that ugly thud from mower. Looked back and deer parts spitting out from rear of mower.